Black Horse Homecoming

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Black Horse Homecoming

Nearly 70 years after his death, the remains of Black Horse, a Cheyenne Indian warrior and ancestor of Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, will be made whole. Bone shards stored by the military for over a century will be buried at his grave site in Montana this weekend. Black Horse fought with the Cheyenne resistance to the military campaign against American Indians in the late 19th century. He fought with Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Big Horn and helped the Cheyenne escape government imprisonment and flee back to Montana. "It's a wake, a burial ceremony, but also a celebration that part of him is coming home," said Campbell, the great-grandson of Black Horse.